Tag: Nathaniel Brunt
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Community Archives & Scholarship Commons: Notes from A Summer At UVic Libraries
By Lambert Heller, for the Kula Blog In 2025 I had the honor to be the first International Visiting Fellow at Kula: Library Futures Academy, a new initiative launched at the University of Victoria (UVic) Libraries. UVic sits on the beautiful south coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, with the Mearns Centre for Learning…
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Libraries: Safeguards of Democracy?
Libraries – Safeguards of Democracy …or are they? What happens when an institution built to safeguard democracy becomes part of the threat to it? This question drives Save Troy: Liberate The Library, a short essay I wrote for Bibliothek & Gesellschaft (Libraries & Society), a newly launched book series published by Brill De Gruyter. Its…
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KULA Postdoctoral Fellow Awarded Hannah Arendt Fellowship
Kula: Library Futures Academy is pleased to announce that Nathaniel Brunt, VPRI Aspiration 2030 & Kula Postdoctoral Fellow, has received the prestigious 2026 Hannah Arendt Fellowship awarded by the German state of Lower Saxony and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The grant application was sponsored by German librarian Lambert Heller, Head of the Open Science…
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Kula Team Presents at ICA Barcelona 2025
Kula had two presentations accepted at the 2025 International Archives Conference held in Barcelona, Spain October 27-30. Director Matt Huculak and University Librarian Jonathan Bengtson presented a “Co-Lab” session in which global participants were asked to envision and share how libraries and archives can work more closely together in post-custodial / co-custodial, cultural heritage contexts. Dr. Nathaniel…
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Kula Postdoctoral Fellow Interviewed by Associated Press (AP)
The work of Kula & Aspiration Post-doctoral Fellow Nathaniel Brunt was featured by the Associated Press. The article, “Iraq’s Yazidis rediscover lost history through photos found in a museum archive,” explores the partnership between Brunt and doctoral candidate Marc Marin Webb at the University of Pennsylvania and their collaborative work with the Yazidi community around…
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Nathaniel Brunt
VPRI Aspiration 2030 & Kula Postdoctoral Fellow Nathaniel Brunt (PhD) is a Canadian interdisciplinary scholar, documentarian, and educator whose work critically examines modern armed conflict and the ways it is, and has been, represented photographically. He is the Aspiration 2030 / UVic Libraries postdoctoral fellow and co-leads the Sersal Project as part of Kula’s Conflict Aftermath Digital Archives…